Billy Mays <81282ed9a88799d21e77957df2d84bd6514d9af6@myhashismyemail.com> writes:>I am trying to design a programming language for a simple processor>(16 bit, ~10 instructions, 16 registers). I am not sure what a>language actually needs in order to be more useful than pure assembly,>but is also reasonable to implement.>>I had originally tried to make a RPN style language where the language>is purely stack based, but I realized it wouldn't be Turing complete.

Why not. Anyway, you can implement Forth or something similar, which
is Turing-complete and relatively easy to implement.